It was announced a little while back that Sports Illustrated’s Tom Verducci would be writing a book about the 2016 World Series champs titled The Cubs Way: The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse. As is often the case with such sports tomes, SI has been releasing excerpts here and there, the first of which took us behind the scenes of the Cubs’ Game 7 win.
A subsequent post on SI.com gave us an in-depth look at one of the more pivotal moments of that epic game, Jason Heyward’s rallying speech during the brief rain delay.